Dirty Dozen tasting: tasters

 Two tasters busy@work@The Dirty Dozen tasting 12th September 2012

 Christian Honorez and Matt Wilkin of H2Vin

 Danny Cameron looks forward (Raymond Reynolds) 

 David Williams (The Wine Gang)

 Graham Holter (editor and publisher of The Wine Merchant magazine)

 Guillaume Aubert stressing a point

 Iris Ellmann (The Wine Barn)

 Dr Jamie Goode (The Wine Anorak)

 Jancis Robinson MW

 Jane Parkinson (The Wine Gang) and Emily O'Hare (sommelier@River Café)

 Lance Foyster (Clark Foyster Wines) properly wary of paparazzi!

 Matt Wilkin (H2Vin)

 Robert Wheatcroft (Vine Trail)

 

Wine writer Sarah Ahmed with her Canon G12

 

Gearoid Devaney of Flint Wines 

Notes on some of the wines in next post

London: Dirty Dozen tasting@Sardines

Reflecting on the tasting

The Dirty Dozen's inaugural importer tasting proved to be a crowded affair – not through fault of the organisers but because the room booked at 37 Charles Street in London's Mayfair became unusable due to a collapsed ceiling. Instead, as an emergency, the Dozen were offered the courtyard – a much smaller space. As expected there were many interesting things to taste but because of the crowds I concentrated on samples from the Loire – a post to come soon on these.

The Dirty Dozen are: Astrum Wine Cellars, Aubert & Mascoli, Clark Foyster Wines, Dynamic Vines, Flint Wines, fortyfive10˚, h2vin, Indigo Wine, Raymond Reynolds, Roberson Wine, Vine Trail and The Wine Barn.

Dirty Dozen@sardines